Threat hunting is the process of proactively searching for hidden threats in an organization’s environment – a critical modern cybersecurity activity. However, relying on manual threat hunting alone can be time-consuming and resource-intensive.

When we talk about emerging technologies and digitization, we often forget that while innovators work to bring the best solutions to market, cybersecurity gurus are concurrently working to identify loopholes and vulnerabilities in these new systems. Gone are the days when cyber attacks were monthly news; instead, they happen almost daily.

Today, Torq transformed security automation forever with the debut of the world’s first enterprise-grade security hyperautomation platform. Why does that matter? I’ll let Gartner explain. It says “Hyperautomation is a business-driven, disciplined approach that organizations use to rapidly identify, vet, and automate as many business and IT processes as possible.” Simply put, it’s the future of security automation, and we’re delivering on its promise, today.

This piece was originally published on Fortra’s AlertLogic.com Blog. Managed detection and response (MDR) would be nothing without a SOC (security operations center). They’re on the frontline of our clients’ defenses — a living, breathing layer of intelligence and protection to complement our automated cybersecurity features. These are the people who make our MDR services best in class so dependable. It’s time you met them.

Torq IAM is a critical foundation of modern enterprise IT infrastructures and governance. It’s one of the ways security professionals deliver value to their entire company, customer, and partner ecosystem. It’s also what drives the effective management of organizational roles, assets, and the connections between them. The product team at Torq is focused on changing the IAM game and leveling up our customers’ capabilities.

Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources it into a purpose-built data lake stored in a customer’s AWS account. Amazon Security Lake reduces the complexity and costs for customers to make their security solutions data accessible to address a variety of security use cases such as threat detection, investigation, and incident response.

By Dallas Young Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Torq According to researchers, the 3CX Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) desktop program for Windows and MacOS, which boasts over 600,000 customers and 12m daily users, has been compromised by a DLL sideloading attack and used in several supply chain attacks. 3CX is a private branch exchange (PBX) system, a private telephone network used within a company or organization.

It’s natural for people to let down their guard when hunting for great deals or responding to one-time requests from coworkers trying to plan their vacations. But threat actors don’t take time off, and as recent history has shown from Log4J and Kaseya attacks, attackers are poised to do the most damage when their targets are off celebrating outside the office.

Last week, the incident response firm Mitiga published research outlining the potential exposure of Okta passwords of organizational users. The method involves a mistaken entry of one’s password in the username field in an Okta login interface – something that, according to the research, is not an infrequent occurrence.

The security operations maturity model assesses an organization’s current security capabilities to reduce its cyber risk and incident cost by lowering its time to detect and respond to threats, become more cyber resilient, and draw a plan to mature over time.